Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,243 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Edna Guy
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Edna Guy McCully (1907-1983)
Marvin Dunn (Florida International University)
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Marvin Dunn (1940- )
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Charles “Charlie” Parker, Jr. (1920-1955)
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(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”

Explore Global African History

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Apolinar Salcedo Caicedo (1955- )
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Israeli Black Panther Party (1971-1977)
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Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junking Jammeh (1965- )
Map of the Mali Empire
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Mali Empire (ca. 1200- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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African Americans and Cuba’s First Experiment in Castro-Era Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
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Telling Secrets, Spying Freedom: A Novel Account of Mary Bowser’s Civil War Espionage
Edythe Turnham and Her Knights of Syncopation, Seattle, 1925
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Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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